| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
the troubling story of antipsychotic drugs |
| 作者: |
MoncrieffJoanna, 1966- |
| 出版地: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2013 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) |
| 標題: |
Antipsychotic drugs - Side effects. - |
| 標題: |
PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology. - |
| 標題: |
PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness. - |
| 標題: |
MEDICAL / Pharmacology - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137277442 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record |
| 摘要註: |
Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs have become some of the biggest blockbusters of the early 21st century, increasingly prescribed not just to people with 'schizophrenia' or other severe forms of mental disturbance but for a range of more common psychological complaints. This book challenges the accepted account that portrays antipsychotics as specific treatments that target an underlying brain disease and explores early views that suggested, in contrast, that antipsychotics achieve their effects by inducing a state of neurological suppression. Professional enthusiasm for antipsychotics eclipsed this understanding, exaggerated the benefits of antipsychotics and minimized or ignored evidence of their toxic effects. The pharmaceutical industry has been involved in expanding the use of antipsychotics into territory where it is likely that their dangers far outweigh their advantages. |
| ISBN: |
9781137277442electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137277440electronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
Preface 1. Cure or Curse? 2. Chlorpromazine 3. Magic Bullets 4. Building a House of Cards 5. The Phoenix Rises 6. Looking Where the Light is 7. The Patient's Dilemma 8. Antipsychotics as Chemical Cosh 9. Old and New Drug-Induced Problems 10. The First Tentacles 11. The Antipsychotic Epidemic 12. All is Not as it Seems. |